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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/12/20 8:25 PM, Martin J. Dürst
via Unicode wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:7868386b-d705-4139-c106-bb2eab58fe39@it.aoyama.ac.jp">Asmus
gives a lot of good reasons below. Here are some more:
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<p>One more, from me: capital letters have been encoded separately
from lowercase ones since forever, since the first land animals
crawled out of the sea and started writing computer files.
Unicode's principles require conformance and/or round-tripping to
earlier standards. So even if you were right that italics are no
less distinct than capitals, it wouldn't matter.</p>
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<p>~mark<br>
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